"um" would work - a valet, as we said elsehwere, being intimately close to the person of their master (hence the quip that no man is a hero to his valet" all the time. BTW, Anderson is misspelling "wider", it should be "wieder", since it means "again", not "against".
I'm slow, but I get there eventually! (Seriously, I should have finished the letter before asking for help, I would have run into his "um" eventually and gone, "Oh, that looks the same! *And* it makes sense! Let me not bother Selena with that." But the letter is so long and so badly written I gave into my frustration early.) (Glasow's are worse, but at least *short*. Glasow wants to be done with his boring bureacratic duties. Anderson is ranting about how hard his life is, and wants to fill up every inch of 4 dense pages and then write along the margins.)
BTW, Anderson is misspelling "wider", it should be "wieder", since it means "again", not "against".
Yeah, he doesn't write "dieser" either, he writes "diser". I've gone back and forth on whether that's how he writes "ie" (in other words, badly scrawled) or whether I should actually represent what I see, which is "i". But he's got so many examples of "ie" elsewhere that I've concluded this is a spelling problem, not a handwriting problem. (Deciphering is an interesting challenge!)
I still have to say, now having read many different hands, that Colonel Du Moulin, who chased Peter unsuccessfully in the Netherlands, wins first prize for both worst handwriting and worst spelling. I hope never to have to decipher anything worse than that, and am frankly astonished that I was able to figure out what he was saying at all. He's the example I use when trying to impress people with the challenges of my hobby. ;)
Lol, one of my coworkers last week, when I showed him one of Du Moulin's words, which is literally just dots after the first character, wrote,
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Re: Anderson to Fredersdorf, page 1, Teuton-picking
Date: 2025-01-29 09:44 am (UTC)Re: Anderson to Fredersdorf, page 1, Teuton-picking
Date: 2025-01-29 11:37 am (UTC)BTW, Anderson is misspelling "wider", it should be "wieder", since it means "again", not "against".
Yeah, he doesn't write "dieser" either, he writes "diser". I've gone back and forth on whether that's how he writes "ie" (in other words, badly scrawled) or whether I should actually represent what I see, which is "i". But he's got so many examples of "ie" elsewhere that I've concluded this is a spelling problem, not a handwriting problem. (Deciphering is an interesting challenge!)
I still have to say, now having read many different hands, that Colonel Du Moulin, who chased Peter unsuccessfully in the Netherlands, wins first prize for both worst handwriting and worst spelling. I hope never to have to decipher anything worse than that, and am frankly astonished that I was able to figure out what he was saying at all. He's the example I use when trying to impress people with the challenges of my hobby. ;)
Lol, one of my coworkers last week, when I showed him one of Du Moulin's words, which is literally just dots after the first character, wrote,
Fine. I c.. do that t.. :P